Oliver Ziegenbalg was born 1971 in Böblingen, Baden-Württemberg. After his secondary-school graduation, he moved to Karlsruhe to study mathematical economics at TU Karlsruhe until 1998. In parallel, he studied media arts/film at Karlsruhe University of Arts and Design from 1995 to 1999, which he finished with a postgraduate diploma. After graduating and moving to Berlin, Oliver Ziegenbalg started working as a screenwriter. Having written screenplays for popular series such as “Ein Fall für Zwei” (“A case for two”) and “Gute Zeiten, schlechte Zeiten” (“Good Times, Bad Times”), he also started working as a cinema screenwriter later on. Among others, he wrote the screenplay for Til Schweiger’s “1½ Ritter” (“1½ Knights”) as well as the comedcy “U-900” starring Atze Schröder.These projects were followed by screenplays for several highly successful cinema films such as the comedy “FRIENDSHIP!” by Markus Goller and “Frau Müller Muss Weg” (“Ms Müller must go”) by Sönke Wortmann, for which he received the 2015 Bavarian Film Award for best screenplay. In addition, Ziegenbalg made his directorial debut in 2011 on “Russendisko” (“Russian Disco”), having written the screenplay for the comedy as well. 2017 marks his debut as a producer: “25 km/h” is the first cinema production of the production company Sunny Side Up GmbH founded in 2016 with Markus Goller, produced in cooperation with Pictures in a Frame, Traumfabrik Babelsberg & 26. Babelsberg Film, Mythos Film and Deutsche Columbia Pictures.